Scale change favours N.Z.

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33514, 20 April 1974, Page 8

Scale change favours N.Z.

| (A’.Z. Press Association) I WELLINGTON. I 'Hie Jockey Club in Britain / has introduced a system oli (weight allowances which will J permit horses foaled, in the| (Southern Hemisphere to com-: pete on more favourable terms! with those foaled in the j ‘Northern Hemisphere when’ running in British races. ' On the eve of thy closing (date for entries for the most; ■valuable weight-for-age race in England. the $163,000 King] ; George VI and Queen Elizabeth.; [Stakes at Ascot in July, the Jockey Club’s racing calendar i ihas announced the new scale'; | of allowances. I Until now. a horse foaled in? the Southern Hemisphere ,has 1 automatically become a year ; older and qualified for increased ■ weight conditions when moved 1 ito the Northern Hemisphere. Under the new scale a three- j i year-old from the Southern ( ! Hemisphere will receive an ( ' allowance of six pounds from i horses of the same age when , running in the 2400 metre King , (George VI and Queen Elizabeth t I Stakes. j Entries for the race, sponsored ; by de Beers Consolidates Mines,; Ltd, and taking place on 1 '“Diamond Day,” July 27. closeh [with the New Zealand Racing : Conference at. 5 p.m. next Tues- ] 'day. April 23. h

| Winners of the race In recent! years have included the greal !Brigadier Gerard, the Canadian-: bred Nijinsky, Mill Reef, from ! America, and last year another; : America-bred, Dahlia.